Blaisdell v. Bohr
Supreme Court of Georgia
Principal and Agent. Stock and Stockholders. Fraud. Equity. Before Judge Roney. Richmond Superior Court. April Term, 1886. This case arose from a bill filed by Christine Bohr against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company et al. and cross-bills filed by the defendants.
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Principal and Agent. Stock and Stockholders. Fraud. Equity. Before Judge Roney. Richmond Superior Court. April Term, 1886. This case arose from a bill filed by Christine Bohr against the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company et al. and cross-bills filed by the defendants. The pleadings will be found reported in 68 Ga. 66. The case was referred to a master in chancery, who reported that the complainant was entitled to recover from the Georgia Railroad for the value of stock transferred on its books, as she claimed, illegally, and that Frank Blaisdell and A. J. Miller were liable to the railroad…
1Opinion of the Court
Blandford, Justice.
Mrs. Bohr, having received some three thousand dollars in money on account of the life insurance of her deceased husband, turned this money over to her son-in-law, Oscar R. Hummell, to pay her husband’s debts and to invest for her as he. thought proper. Hummell deposited twenty-one hundred dollars of 1 his money in the National *383Bank of Augusta to the credit of Mrs. Bohr; he purchased twenty-three shares of the stock of the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company for Mrs. Bohr, and in her name drew a check upon the National Bank for nineteen hundred dollars to pay for this…
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